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“You remind me of someone… a man I met in a half-remembered dream. A man possessed of some radical notions.”

Zaha Hadid was a very famous architect. She was born in Iraq in 1950 lived in London and worked everywhere. Hadid started each project thinking that the world was not a rectangle. Reality has several faces, a number of perspectives and billions of angles. In the early stages of her career she was fascinated by the concept of break, split, divisions in one unit, like the spikes of icebergs, like cliffs in ranges of mountains.

She became an expert at shaping the concrete in fluid and organic forms. Her buildings look like giant glassy white or grey snakes, beehives, frozen waves. You can find her plastic buildings from Italy to Chine, from USA to Azerbaijan.

Zaha justified her choices by saying that today’s technology allow us to experience buildings with excitement and to explore, also in this field, the infinite possibilities of the unexpected. She imposed her buildings and therefore her visions as a breakthrough, and didn’t hide that it’s ok to preserve traditions and heritage but also to dispose of the old. Perhaps she wass missing a bit on color. Her works are astonishing but they don’t exude much warmth; probably they should sit in more comprehensive and consistent new urban schemes where would stand out as jewels on the crown.